It's not that surprising that Soderling/Ferrer ended up getting stuck on court 12. With the top 5 men's seeds plus Venus, Serena, Woz and Henin/Clijsters there's not really any way they could have fitted on one of the main 3 courts today (I think court 12 is basically the 4th biggest court). Personally I would much rather watch that match than the Venus or Woz matches but it's certainly understandable that it's not been scheduled that way.
He completely fell asleep for about 4 games there but got it together again at 5-5 0-40. Aside from those 4 games he's looked really good, in fact he's looked very good all tournament aside from that period and like the first 5 games of his 1st round match. He really needs to stop having phases like that if he wants to win a slam though.